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Based on the data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI; Aura) satellite instrument, an analysis of changes in total formaldehyde (CH2O) column and tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) column, associated with the extreme summer weather regimes and wildfires in European Russia…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, Russia, formaldehyde, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, extreme weather, wildfires
The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the main driver of climate variability at mid to high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, affecting wildfire activity, which in turn pollutes the air and contributes to human health problems and mortality, and potentially provides strong…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, climate change, South America, fire scars, climate modes, AAO - Antarctic Oscillation, synchrony, warming, Atlantic Ocean influence, fire regimes, northern Patagonia, western Patagonia, past millennium, time series
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy of the commonly used ozone (O3) instrument (the ultraviolet (UV) photometer) against a Federal Reference Method (Nitric Oxide chemiluminescence) for ozone measurement in wildfire smoke plumes. We carried out simultaneous ozone…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Oregon, ozone, UV photometer, NO-chemiluminescence, free troposphere, boundary layer, high sensitivity, trace gases, aircraft
Feedbacks between climate warming, land surface aridity, and wildfire-derived aerosols represent a large source of uncertainty in future climate predictions. Here, long-term observations of aerosol optical depth, surface level aerosol loading, fire-area burned, and hydrologic…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, climate change, aerosols, aridity, wildfires, aerosol optical depth, trends, Projections, pollution, drought
Forest fire is an serious hazard in many places around the world. For such threats, video-based smoke detection would be particularly important for early warning because smoke arises in any forest fire and can be seen from a long distance. This paper presents a novel and robust…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: smoke detection, deep belief networks, color spaces, motion detection, fire occurrence patterns, video monitoring
Mountains are crucial places in which to observe, experience, and learn about rapid weather and climate shifts, felt to varying degrees in different contexts. Fire lookout observers, immersed in the mountain environments of Alberta, Canada, for 5 to 6 months of the year, many of…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, Rocky Mountains, wildfires, fire lookouts, lookout firefighter, visibility, extreme weather
In Indonesia, drought driven fires occur typically during the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation. This was the case of the events of 1997 and 2015 that resulted in months-long hazardous atmospheric pollution levels in Equatorial Asia and record greenhouse gas…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, drought, greenhouse gas emissions, fire probability, temperature
In 2002, an enormous amount of smoke has been emitted from Yakutsk wildfires. In this study, we examine the impact of smoke on cloud properties and precipitation associated with frontal systems using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model and satellite data. The smoke emissions are computed…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Yakutsk, WRF-Chem, satellite data, Russia, organic matter, black carbon, clouds, biomass burning, aerosols
Quantifying biomass consumption and carbon release is critical to understanding the role of fires in the carbon cycle and air quality. We present a methodology to estimate the biomass consumed and the carbon released by the California Rim fire by integrating postfire airborne…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping
Region(s): California
Keywords: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, biomass consumption, C - carbon, megafires, Landsat, scientific data integration, 2013 Rim Fire, carbon release
Climate forecasts predict an increase in frequency and intensity of wildfires. Associations between health outcomes and population exposure to smoke from Washington 2012 wildfires were compared using surface monitors, chemical-weather models, and a novel method blending three…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, public health, PM2.5, cardiopulmonary, WRF-Chem, epidemiology, cardiovascular effects, respiratory effects, hospitalizations
Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. These changes in key weather variables have combined to both lengthen the fire season and…
Person: West, Legarza, Jolly, Emanuel, Knight
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, relative humidity, rain, annual precipitation, fire regimes, fire danger indices, fire season length, fire return interval, global carbon cycle, Forest Resilience Bond, fire suppression, fire suppression costs
Fire happens in Canada’s forest. Every year, thousands of small fires and dozens of large ones occur somewhere in Canada’s vast forest landscape. It has been the story for centuries and will continue. Now more than ever people work, build and live in the boreal forest but…
Person: Flannigan, Tymstra
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: AFSC - Alaska Fire Science Consortium, Canada, Fort McMurray Fire, Horse River Fire, fire management, lessons learned, Alberta, fire severity
Presentation from the 2017 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Tundra fires were once very rare on Alaska's North Slope, but are now becoming more frequent, probably as a result of climate change. Fire-management need to be highly adaptable during this time of rapid change;…
Person: Mann
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: AFSC - Alaska Fire Science Consortium, climate change, tundra fire, C - carbon, carbon release, annual area burned, fire frequency, boreal forest, trace gases, 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire , geomorphology
Canada is expected to see an increase in fire risk under future climate projections. Large fires, such as that near Fort McMurray, Alberta in 2016, can be devastating to the communities affected. Understanding the role of human emissions in the occurrence of such extreme fire…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, extremes, Alberta, event attribution, CFFDRS - Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
Fire is a major ecosystem disturbance that profoundly impacts vegetation dynamics, atmospheric trace gases and aerosol composition, climate, and the welfare of wildlife and human society. While climate is generally a critical driving factor shaping the occurrence, size, and…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire feedbacks, biomass burning, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Across the islands of Hawaiʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu, and Kauaʻi the annual area burned by large wildland fires (≥0.4 km2 burned) between 2002 and 2011 averaged 48 km2/yr and ranged between 5 and 119 km2/yr. For the same period, greenhouse gas emissions from wildland fires…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Hawaii
Keywords: area burned, wildfires, greenhouse gases, grasslands, shrublands, CO2 - carbon dioxide, nonnative species, carbon balance, fire severity, carbon storage, carbon flux
Hawaii is unique among the United States because of its tropical climate, geographic isolation, high rates of species endemism and discontinuous land mass. The year-round warm, wet climate on the windward sides of islands and the high fertility of relatively young volcanically…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Hawaii
Keywords: C - carbon, carbon storage, climate change, greenhouse gases, wildfires, carbon cycling, global warming, area burned
During the summer of 2012 the Hewlett Gulch and High Park wildfires burned an area of 400 km2 northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado. These fires both came within 20 km of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, allowing for extensive measurements of…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, biomass burning, ammonia, reactive nitrogen, High Park Fire, Hewlett Gulch Fire, particles, N - nitrogen, air quality, wildfires, Rocky Mountains
This webinar, organized jointly by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, will focus on changing wildfires in Alaska and resulting smoke impacts to help our audience be prepared for the upcoming wildfire season. Randi Jandt…
Person: Jandt, Stuefer, Cooper
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate change, climate warming, lightning, air temperature, air quality, smoke impacts, WRF-Chem, aerosols, visibility, remote sensing, UAFSMOKE, smoke forecasting, PM - particulate matter, public health, health effects, sensitive populations, area burned, seasonal area burned
Every year, thousands of small fires and dozens of large ones break out somewhere in Canada. This has been the story for millenia and will continue as long as there are people and lightning to start fires in the boreal forest. Now more than ever, people work, build, live, and…
Person: Flannigan
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, International
Keywords: Fort McMurray Fire, Alberta, Canada, boreal forests, lessons learned, fire size, area burned, fire impacts, ignition, evacuation, fire management, dNBR - differenced Normalized Burn Ratio, topography, FireSmart
Forests absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and also can release it back into the atmosphere through natural disturbances and management activities. In this study, the impact of different carbon policies on a landowner's management decisions is analyzed at the stand…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, Faustmann model, forest carbon, optimization, forest management, C - carbon, harvesting, land values, landowners, wildfires, air quality
Wildfires release the greatest amount of carbon into the atmosphere compared to other forest disturbances. To understand how current and potential future fire regimes may affect the role of the Eurasian boreal forest in the global carbon cycle, we employed a new, spatially-…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, fire regimes, climate change, fire size, fire frequency, Siberia, taiga, boreal forest, C - carbon, climate change, Sibbork, Siberia, simulation model, Spatially-Explicit, taiga, Southern Siberia, Sayan Mountains, disturbance, vegetation, mortality, wildfire, biomass